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Minto Alaska Map

Explore Minto, Alaska, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Minto, Alaska

How to Use This Minto, Alaska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Minto, Alaska. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alaska or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Minto.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Minto
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Yukon-Koyukuk
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Anchorage)

Latitude	65.089635
Longitude	-149.59021
Population	150
Density	0.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	99758
Area Code	907
School District	Yukon-Koyukuk School District

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About Minto, Alaska

Minto is a locality in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 150. The population density is 0.4 people per km². Minto is located at 65.0896°N, 149.5902°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Anchorage) timezone. ZIP code: 99758.

Minto occupies a sprawling expanse of interior wilderness where the earth stretches wide under a sky that seems to hold the weight of the horizon. It lies 49.5 miles west-northwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 295°T), and is situated 52.4 miles west-northwest of Fairbanks. The landscape is defined by the damp, mossy resilience of the boreal forest, where black spruce and willow lean into the silence of the taiga. Only two miles distant, the waters of Cooper Lake sit like a polished mirror, reflecting the pale, subarctic light that lingers long into the evening. A mile away, Uncle Sam Creek carves its narrow, winding path through the silt, its movement providing a steady, rhythmic pulse to the otherwise motionless expanse of brush and muskeg. Far to the south, the jagged, snow-dusted silhouette of the Alaska Range looms as a distant, immovable sentinel, a reminder of the immense tectonic forces that shaped this vast, quiet basin.

Minto serves as a vital anchor for the Athabascan people, whose presence here is as deep and enduring as the permafrost beneath the soil. The economy remains tethered to the land, moving with the seasonal demands of trapping, hunting, and a profound, practical knowledge of the Minto Flats State Game Refuge that borders the settlement. Life here is not measured by the frantic pace of industry but by the migration of waterfowl and the subtle shifts in temperature that dictate the flow of daily survival. Bush planes occasionally break the stillness, their engines a sharp, mechanical punctuation against the sprawling green, yet the fundamental character of Minto remains dictated by the patience of those who have learned to thrive in this isolation. It is a place where the modern world is merely a suggestion, easily eclipsed by the immense, indifferent beauty of the interior woods.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tanana Valley State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — locality lies within
Minto Flats State Game Refuge (State Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 173° S
James Dalton Highway Corridor (State Conservation Area) — 33.6 mi, 018° N
Historic Alaska Railroad Depot Museum (Museum) — 39.1 mi, 158° S
Nenana Ice Classic (Attraction) — 39.1 mi, 158° S
Hess Creek Overlook (Viewpoint) — 40.9 mi, 023° NE
Running Reindeer Ranch (Attraction) — 49.2 mi, 103° E
Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 51.3 mi, 004° N · 18.2M acres
Tozitna River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 51.4 mi, 330° NW
Chena Indian Village (Attraction) — 52.9 mi, 111° E
UAF Planet Walk Start (Sun) (Museum) — 53.2 mi, 107° E
International Signpost (Public Artwork) — 53.3 mi, 107° E
Black Brant IX sounding rocket (Monument) — 53.3 mi, 107° E
Riverboat Discovery (Attraction) — 53.5 mi, 109° E
Alaska Mining Hall of Fame (Museum) — 57.0 mi, 106° E
Barnette's Landing (Monument) — 57.2 mi, 106° E
Bouchard's International Dog Mushing and Sled Museum (Museum) — 57.3 mi, 106° E
Lend-Lease Monument (Monument) — 57.3 mi, 106° E
Fairbanks Ice Museum (Museum) — 57.3 mi, 106° E
White Alice Communications Station (Historic Ruins) — 60.9 mi, 093° E
Meehan (Historic Ruins) — 70.8 mi, 090° E
Denali National Park (National Park) — 75.5 mi, 180° S · 4.7M acres

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